KROEHLER VINTAGE HUTCH

This hutch is a thrift store find that was missing it's legs and had been distressed naturally for decades, but it was such a unique vintage piece and a quality piece of furniture that just needed some updating. I have Googled Kroehler furniture and they made some sharp looking furniture and I love the retro look of the items they did in 50's and 60's. Michelle had found the Lion claw legs in a box of furniture parts that someone was tossing out on trash day, so I attached them to the hutch, sanded and painted the whole thing satin white and removed and cleaned all the hardware and painted it apple green and reinstalled it and then painted the ball that the Lion claw was grabbing green along with painting the inside of the hutch green. This was a fun project to work on and it turned out so nice. I hope to find another one someday.








finished with legs and new paint

Sheet Music Dresser

Michelle bought this piece along with a matching chest of drawers and both pieces were missing their legs very strange? but found some legs in my furniture parts box and went to work. I wish I could take credit for coming up with the sheet music idea but I saw Miss Mustard Seed do this with an older dresser on her blogand I thought it was very creative and I also found a bunch of sheet music in the pink desk we bought from Goodwill that you see on our blog, the girl that owned the desk was in the band at school because it was all for the flute. I then distressed it lightly and cleaned,primed and painted the pulls metallic silver...we think it turned out nice and plan on doing the chest of drawers the same way.http://missmustardseed.blogspot.com/2010/03/sytycd-week-4-whites.html check this out

CINNAMON STICK HUTCH

Michelle brought this home and it was really ugly,it looked like they had their 6 year old try to paint it 5 different colors and someone had broken the bottom doors off but left the hinges on it? so I removed the hinges and filled the holes,found some wood knobs for the top doors and painted it Glidden satin CINNAMON STICK and Glidden satin SPANISH OLIVE it turned out great.I painted all the edges spanish olive and then took a candle and rubbed wax on the edges and then painted cinnamon stick and when the paint was dry rubbed edges back to spanish olive color.

VINTAGE GIRLS PINK DESK

This started out as a $19.99 Goodwill purchase it was in need of some TLC, but a really cool vintage girls desk.


Very ornate drawer pulls and appliques
primed and ready for pink paint






Finished now on to the next piece

NEW PROJECTS waiting for us to start

4 new piece's ready to start, The Hutch will most likely be painted black and maybe distress it not sure? the dressers I'm not sure,tempted to paint them with some new colors, but it's hard to decide.

VINTAGE BOOK SHELF'S

We bought these at a thrift store for $10 a piece, I remember these from the 60's-70's both were stained dark and scratched up a bit, but was able to fix them with little effort .

NEED AN IDEA FOR AN UNWANTED PIECE

These older TV entertainment centers are piling up at Goodwill's/Thrift stores, I wish I could have a brainstorm and figure out how to make a useful/good looking piece of furniture out of these older pieces. Flat screen TV's have turned this piece of furniture into the 8 track stereo of 2010. What can be done with these pieces??......any idea's??

DUMPSTER DIVING

This dinning room table and chairs had been thrown into the dumpster at an apartment complex my son was visiting, he borrowed our truck and took this home and repainted it and had his mother recover the seats and then put it on craigslist and sold it for a $100.00

AQUA FRESH DRESSER

My wife bought this at a garage sale and it had many coates of paint that required chemical stripping once back to bare wood it was primed with Glidden grabber primer and then hand sanded flat and level and then 3 coats of Glidden custom mix aqua on the outside and semi-gloss white on the inside of the drawers. The chrome pulls were polished and reinstalled and I think it turned out great.

GIRLS BROYHILL DRESSER

Tired looking girls Broyhill dresser received a pink satin 3 coat makeover and pulls were painted gloss white enamel.

SHARPE IN BLACK

This was a garage sale find that my wife found it had a worn mahogany finish and I knew it would look sharpe in satin black with gloss black enameled pulls. I could have distressed it but it looked great as is.